Grades Kindergarten-2

Barner, Bob. Which Way to the Revolution? A Book about Maps. New York: Holiday House, 1998.

Berger, Melvin. The Whole World in Your Hands: Looking at Maps. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1999.

Cocca-Leffler, Maryann. Bus Route to Boston. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2000.

Jenkins, Steve. Looking Down. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Leedy, Loreen. Mapping Penny’s World. New York: Henry Holt, 2000.

McPhail, David. Lost. Boston: Joy Street Books, 1990.

Pattison, Darcy. The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman. San Diego: Harcourt, 2003.

Rabe, Tish. There’s a Map on My Lap! All about Maps. New York: Random House, 2002.

Rockwell, Anne. The Way to Captain Yankee’s. New York: Macmillan, 1994.

Stanley, Diane. Joining the Boston Tea Party. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

Sweeney, Joan. Me on the Map. New York: Crown, 1996.

Weitzman, Jacqueline. You Can’t Take a Balloon into the Museum of Fine Arts. New York: Dial, 2002.

Zschock, Matha Day. Journey around Boston from A to Z. Beverly, MA: Commonwealth Editions, 2001.

Grades 3-5

Baicker-McKee, Carol. Mapped out!: The Search for Snookums. Salt Lake City:
Gibbs Smith, 1997.

Byers, Helen. Kidding Around Boston: What to Do, Where to Go, and How to Have Fun in Boston. Santa Fe: John Muir Publications, 2000.

Chambers, Catherine. All about Maps. New York: Franklin Watts, 1998.

Dash, Joan. The Longitude Prize. Basel, NY: Farrar, 2000.

Dunnahoo, Terry. Boston’s Freedom Trail. New York: Dillon Press, 1994.

Fritz, Jean. Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan. New York: G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1994.

Ganeri, Anita. The Story of Maps and Navigation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. ( Also grades 6-8)

Haslam, Andrew. Maps. Chicago: World Book/Two-Can, 1996.

Hatchett, Clint. The Glow-in-the-Dark Night Sky Book. New York: Random House, 1988.

Johnson, Sylvia. Mapping the World. New York: Atheneum, 1999.

Julio, Susan. Great Map Mysteries: 18 Stories and Maps to Build Geography and Map Skills. New York: Scholastic, 1997.

Knowlton, Jack. Maps & Globes. New York: Crowell, 1985.

Lauber, Patricia. How We Learned the Earth is Round. New York: Crowell, 1990.

Sammis, Fran. Maps and Mapmaking. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2000.

Stienecker, David. Maps. New York: Benchmark Books, 1998.

VanCleave, Janice Pratt. Janice VanCleave’s Geography for Every Kid: Easy Activities that Make Learning Geography Fun. New York: Wiley, 1993.

Walters, Virginia. Are We There Yet, Daddy? New York: Viking, 1999.

Grades 6-8

Howarth, Sarah. The Children’s Atlas of the Twentieth Century. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1996.

Kenda, Margaret. Geography Wizardry for Kids. Hauppauge, NY: Barron’s, 1997.

Mattson, Mark T. The Scholastic Environmental Atlas of the United States. New York: Scholastic, 1993.

Ryan, Peter. Explorers & Mapmakers. New York: Lodestar Books, 1990.

Smith, A.G. Where Am I? : The Story of Maps and Navigation. Toronto: Stoddart Kids, 1997.

Smoothey, Marion. Maps and Scale Drawings. New York: Marshall-Cavendish, 1995.

Stefoff, Rebecca. Accidental Explorers: Surprises and Sidetrips in the History of Exploration. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Young, Karen Romano. Small Worlds: Maps and Mapmaking. New York: Scholastic, 2002.

Grades 9-12

Boston Women's Heritage Trail: Four Centuries of Boston Women. Gloucester: The Pressroom, Inc, 1999.

Fast, Howard. Seven Days in June. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publications, 1994.

Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. New York: Dell, 1970.

Rinaldi, Ann. The Fifth of March. San Diego: Harcourt, 1993.

Rinaldi, Ann. The Secret of Sarah Revere. New York: Gulliver Books, 1995.

Wittlinger, Ellen. Hard Love. Aladdin Paperbacks, 2001.

Created by children’s and young adults' librarians at the Boston Public Library
Bronwyn Booker, Orient Heights Branch
Vicky Burr, Faneuil Branch
Allison DeSeife, Rey Children’s Room
Sarah Hay, Young Adults' Room
Paula Hayes, Rey Children’s Room
Nancy Hurxthal, Rey Children’s Room
Anne Kelly, East Boston Branch
Roberta Lewis, West End Branch
May Lo, Rey Children’s Room
Barbara Rhodes, Jamaica Plain Branch
Elizabeth Schulz, Brighton Branch

Boston Public Library, 2003